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. >> do you know if the head of pbs was at the virginia conference? >> i do not. >> could you get back to me with that information please zm. >> >> in your testimony, you said, he looks forward to continuing to work at the committee to refocus to save money for the american taxpayer. what were they doing before? >> the acting administrator has committed to conducting a thorough top to bottom review of this agency, so that every single aspect of the agency is being looked at right now, so that we can ensure it's carrying on its mission in the most cost effective way. >> you say in you're testimony on page 2 that your office reviews each and every planned future conference to make sure these events and any related travel are justified. and then you say, for example, conferences require a business justification, and a submission of a budget. that wasn't going on before? this is pretty basic. >> there was no central oversight of conferences to require that the proposal for what the conference was about, how it was related back to the agency's mission. tha
. >> do you know if the head of pbs was at the virginia conference? >> i do not. >> could you get back to me with that information please zm. >> >> in your testimony, you said, he looks forward to continuing to work at the committee to refocus to save money for the american taxpayer. what were they doing before? >> the acting administrator has committed to conducting a thorough top to bottom review of this agency, so that every single aspect of the agency is...
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. >> at pbs caremark to say a few remarks. >> thank you very much. thank you for having this breakfast, this health care briefing is going to be fantastic. as you said, i'm larry burton, i'm vice president of the cvs caremark government relations team, and a lot of us are looking at the supreme court decision and what happens. what's going to happen at the state level, what's going to happen to state exchanging? despite the coverage and dialogue about it, there's still uncertainty and confusion about what's out there in terms of choices. our own cvs consumer research has shown 78% of the consumers we interviewed who would be eligible for the new health care insurance coverage have never heard of the state-based exchanges and where they're going to need to shop starting 2014. in addition, more than 60% of the responsibilities said they need help in choosing health insurance when the system changes. so with this backdrop, i think the panelists today are going to be providing us insights and interesting information in terms of what the choices are and a
. >> at pbs caremark to say a few remarks. >> thank you very much. thank you for having this breakfast, this health care briefing is going to be fantastic. as you said, i'm larry burton, i'm vice president of the cvs caremark government relations team, and a lot of us are looking at the supreme court decision and what happens. what's going to happen at the state level, what's going to happen to state exchanging? despite the coverage and dialogue about it, there's still uncertainty...
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see one of my favorite clips is on pbs and the presidential, the american experience. there's a wonderful two-part documentary on dwight eisenhower and one of my favorite clips is eisenhower returning to uniform in 1951 and taking up his nato command and they show him exchanging a salute with a female officer. it is all business. in other words quite eisenhower does not see it as male/female. he is an officer and she is a superior offers are and they are exchanging. it's a very interesting picture selection. dwight eisenhower was somebody who come the closest i can come to that as he gave the commencement address. he was very proud of my sister, my three sisters and there were four of us grandchildren and he addressed the shipley school in the spring of 1967 and he was addressing these hemlines that were going up, the miniskirts. he said remember that ankles are always neat but needs arise now become something like this. he was not very moderate that he was somebody who loved people, male or female, he loved humanity and that really came through in everything that i ex
see one of my favorite clips is on pbs and the presidential, the american experience. there's a wonderful two-part documentary on dwight eisenhower and one of my favorite clips is eisenhower returning to uniform in 1951 and taking up his nato command and they show him exchanging a salute with a female officer. it is all business. in other words quite eisenhower does not see it as male/female. he is an officer and she is a superior offers are and they are exchanging. it's a very interesting...
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she has appeared in the pbs documentary. she is the author of five books, three about mark twain and putting mark twain in the company of women. the most recent book she's going to talk today is the other woman, the hidden story of his final years, and she's going to call the other power plant. we are having a technical moment. >> thank you. it's great to be here, and i appreciate your interest in all of our work. if you recognize the guy up there, that is exactly what he wanted. in fact they are all part of his plan, and you are just helpless purchase participants making sure he remains one of the most iconic writers. when i say that i don't say it likely to read in many ways we all live in a mark twain world and it's a lot easier if we just give ourselves up to it. the woman standing next to the plane is isabel and she is the subject of the biography that i wrote, and she was a very interesting character and possessed an enormous amount of power over her subjects. now, when most people think of mark twain, this is who they
she has appeared in the pbs documentary. she is the author of five books, three about mark twain and putting mark twain in the company of women. the most recent book she's going to talk today is the other woman, the hidden story of his final years, and she's going to call the other power plant. we are having a technical moment. >> thank you. it's great to be here, and i appreciate your interest in all of our work. if you recognize the guy up there, that is exactly what he wanted. in fact...
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pbs is working with, public television is working with the aspen institute to turn this into a one-hour session. there will be a whole one-hour session which will include conversations about football safety but we are going to play about a ten-minute clip of that. [no audio] [inaudible conversations] let's come back to it. sorry about that. so what i would like to do now is start off this conversation about the under 14 question, the pre-high school equation and i would like to do that with our special guest, dr. robert cantu who many of you will of course are familiar with. he is the chief of neurosurgery and chairman of the department of surgery and drifter of services of sports medicine in concord massachusetts as well as the clinical professor of neurosurgery and the codirector of boston university center for the study of traumatic and -- and -- encephalopathy. is the he is a senior adviser to the nfl head neck and spine committee and is co-founder of the sports legacy institute, an organization dedicated to addressing the concussion crisis through research, treatment, education and
pbs is working with, public television is working with the aspen institute to turn this into a one-hour session. there will be a whole one-hour session which will include conversations about football safety but we are going to play about a ten-minute clip of that. [no audio] [inaudible conversations] let's come back to it. sorry about that. so what i would like to do now is start off this conversation about the under 14 question, the pre-high school equation and i would like to do that with our...